CVE-2022-44877
Published 2023-01-05 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source cve@mitre.org
Summary
CVE-2022-44877 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in CWP Control Web Panel. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on January 17, 2023, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by February 7, 2023. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. CWP has 2 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 2 known-exploited CWP vulnerabilities →Description
login/index.php in CWP (aka Control Web Panel or CentOS Web Panel) 7 before 0.9.8.1147 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in the login parameter.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: CWP — Control Web Panel
Name: CWP Control Web Panel OS Command Injection Vulnerability
Date added: 2023-01-17 · Due: 2023-02-07
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170388/Control-Web-Panel-7-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170820/Control-Web-Panel-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171725/Control-Web-Panel-7-CWP7-0.9.8.1147-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/1
- https://gist.github.com/numanturle/c1e82c47f4cba24cff214e904c227386
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLfSvc1SYY
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170388/Control-Web-Panel-7-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170820/Control-Web-Panel-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html

